Vehicle.



PATENTED OCT. 25, 1904.

P. A. LINDROSE.

VEHICLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 14, 1904.

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APPLIUATION FILED MAY 14. 1904.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,402, dated October25, 1904, Application filed May 14, 1904. SerialNo- 207,931- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PIERE ADEN LINDRosE, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Hattiesburg, in the county of Perry and State ofMississippi, have invented a new and Improved Vehicle, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates particularly to improvements in trucks to be usedas a part of an eight-wheel wagon for carrying heavy loads, such astimber and the like, an object being to provide a truck that will bevery strong and serviceable and of a comparatively simple construction.

Other objects of the invention will appear in the general description.

I will describe a vehicle embodying my invention and then point out thenovelfeatures in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a truck embodyingmy invention. Fig. 2 is asection on the line w w of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation with thetongue and hounds removed.

Fig. 4 is a section on the line m m of Fig.1. Fig. 5 is a detail planshowing one of the balland-socket joints employed. Fig. 6 is a sectionon the line y y of Fig. 3, and Fig. 7 is a section on the linez z ofFig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the front axle of the truck, onwhich the wheels 2 are mounted to rotate, and 3 is the rear axle, havingwheels 4.. Mounted on the front axle 1 is a steel casting having at itsfront and extended forward therefrom a boxing 5 for receiving the rearend of the tongue 6, and-near the sides are boxings 7 for receivinghounds 8. The tongue swings on a bolt 9, while the hounds swing on bolts10. Between the center boxing and the end boxing is a web 11, thecenterofwhich extends above the center boxing and has a circular plate12,with which an inverted-cup-shaped plate 13 on a cast-steel bolsterlet is mounted to turn, thus forming a center-bearing or fifth-wheel.The casting having the boxing is secured to the axle 1 by means ofU-bolts 15, the upper ends of which pass through lateral flanges of saidcasting. On the ends of said casting are segmentplates 16, with whichoverturned ends 17 of the bolster engage, thus permitting the turningmovement of the bolster, but preventing its detachment from thecenter-bearing, and these segment-plates are of sufiicient length toprevent the bolster from being turned off the ends of said plates, asbefore it reaches the ends one end of the bolster will engage againstone of the draw-bars, to be hereinafter described.

On the ends of the bolster 14 are socket members each comprising asemicircular transversely-curved section 18, formed integral with thebolster and coacting with an upper member 19, mounted to swing on theouter end of the section 18, and when in closed position the member 19may be locked by passing a bolt 20 through a perforation in a projection21 on the swinging member and through a perforation 22 in the bolster.

On the rear axle 3 are standards 23, consisting, preferably, ofcast-steel, and these standards are secured to the axle by means of yokeor clip bolts 24, passing through perforations in flange portions at thebases of the standards. At the upper end of each standard is asocketmember consisting of an integral section 25 and a swinging section26, these parts being similar to the socket members first described.

Wooden draw-bars 27 have ball-joint members 28 for engaging in the frontsocket members, and these ball-joint members are cast integral withsleeves 29, bolted to the front ends of the draw-bars. Similarball-bearings engage in the sockets and are formed interanged on the draw-bars is a load-bearing bar 31. As here shown, this bar 31 has on itsunder side bearing-plates 32, which engage on hearing-plates 33, mountedon the draw bars. U-shaped bolts or clips 34 pass around the draw-barsand through the bearing-bar. The vertical members of the clips arespaced slightly from the draw-bars, so that there may be a slightmovement of the bearing-bar thereon.

A reach 35 has its rear end extended into a metal loop-plate 36 and issecured to the rear axle by means of a loop belt or clip 37, whichpasses around the said axle and through the reach, and the members ofthe loop plate engage against the upper and lower sides thereof. As hereshown, a wear-plate 38 is arranged between the lower member of saidloop-plate and the axle, said wear-plate having flanges at its front andrear edges which engage against the front and rear of the axle. Boltedto the front end of the reach, is a casting consisting of an. uppermember 39, engaging on the upper side of the reach and a lower member40, engaging against the lower side of the reach, and preferably therear ends of these plates will have inwardly-extended flanges 41 forengaging in recesses formed in the reach, thus adding somewhat to thestrength of the connection between the parts. At the front end theplates 39 40 are connected by aplate at, which engages against the frontend of said reach, and extending forward at the upper and lower portionsof this plate 42 are plates 4L3, which are provided with perforations toreceive a king-bolt M, which passes through the center bearingplate 12and also through a flange 45 at the lower side of the casting secured tothe front axle. Secured to the reach 35 are hounds L6, which have theirrear ends mounted on plates 47, extended inward from the lower ends ofthe standards 23 and formed integral therewith, and it will be notedthat the clips 24; pass through these plates and, through the hounds.The hounds are further secured to the standards by means of screwspassing through lateral flanges 48 at the inner sides of the standardsand into said hounds. The loop'plate 36 is provided, so thata trucksimilar tothe one above described maybe hooked thereto, thus forming aneight-wheel wagon adapted for carrying long timbers or the like.

In backing it may be necessary to lock the bolster 14K to prevent itsturning. For this purpose I have provided the bolster with perforatedlugs 48, through which pins may pass into perforations in the top wallsof the boxings 7.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent-- 1. .In a truck, a front axle, a metal castingsecured thereto and having at its front boxings for receiving a tongueand tongue-hounds, a bearing-plate at the center of said casting, acast-metal bolster having a bearing-plate for engaging on thefirst-named bearing-plate, segment-plates on the ends of said casting,and turned ends on the ends of said bolster for engaging with saidsegment-plates.

2. In a truck, a cast-metal bolster having a center bearing-plate, andsocket members at its ends, each socket member consisting of asemicircular fixed portion and a semicircular swinging portion.

3. In a truck, a front axle, a casting secured thereto and having at itsfront boxings for receiving the end of a tongue, and the rear ends oftongue-hounds, segmental plates on the ends of said casting, a centerbearingplate on the casting, a bolster having an inverted-cup-shapedbearing-plate for engaging on the first-named bearing-plate, turned endsi on said bolster for engaging with the segmentplates, and socketmembers on the bolster, each consisting of a semicircular portionintegral with the bolster, and a semicircular portion having swingingrelation to the fixed portion, each of said portions being transverselyconcaved at the inner side.

4. In a truck, a front axle, a rear axle, socket members mounted on thefront axle, socket members mounted on the rear axle, and draw-barshaving ball-socket members at its ends for engaging in said socketmembers.

5. A truck comprising front and rear axles, socket members mounted onthe axles, wooden draw-bars, metal sleeves secured to the ends of saiddraw-bars, and balls formed on said sleeves for engaging in said socketmembers.

6. A truck comprising front and rear axles, draw-bars havingball-and-socket connections with the axles, and a bearing-bar mounted onthe draw-bars.

7. A truck comprising front and rear axles, a reach secured at its rearend to the rear axle, a loop-plate on the rear end of the reach, acasting secured to the front end of the reach and comprising plates forengaging respectively against the upper and lower sides of the reach,flanges on the plates engaging in the reach, forward extensions fromsaid plates provided with perforations, a casting on the front axle, anda king-bolt passing through said casting and through said forwardprojections.

8. In a truck, a rear axle, metal standards secured to said axle andhaving inwardly-extended plates at the lower ends on which hounds may besecured, and socket members carried by the standards, each socket memberconsisting of a semicircular transverselycurved portion formed integralwith the standards, and similarly-shaped portions mounted to swing onthe standards.

9. In a truck, the combination with a rear axle consisting of wood, of ametal standard to this specification in the presence of two subhaving aninwardly extended plate at the scribing witnesses.

lower end, laterally-extended flanges at the 1 a inner edge providedwith perforations, and a PIhRE ADLN LINDROSE' 5 ball-socket member onthe standard consist- Witnesses:

ing of a fixed section and a swinging section. J NO. C. STEVENS,Intestimony whereoflhavesignedrnynarne P. B. MCLEOD.

